Overview
- The Vereinigung Cockpit action on 12–13 March covers Lufthansa departures from German airports, with roughly 50% of flights cut and about 60% of long-haul services still operating.
- Lufthansa says it expects schedules to largely return to normal from Saturday, 14 March.
- Affected customers can rebook free of charge across Lufthansa Group airlines, request refunds, or convert certain cancelled tickets into Deutsche Bahn rail travel at no cost.
- Some pilots chose to work during the stoppage and other Lufthansa Group carriers operated substitute services, while CityLine largely maintained operations and City Airlines planned full schedules.
- Middle East routes were excluded from the strike as many were already suspended, and Friday figures at Frankfurt cited more than 300 cancellations affecting up to 60,000 travelers with total disruption across the two days surpassing 100,000.